also from earlier this week: this was approximately a million times more effective than whatever the hell the Alberta NDP are doing (???)
calgary.citynews.ca/video/2026/0...
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
Absolutely horrific.
Canada’s massive border bill, C12, has been adopted after third reading at Senate.
C-12 will become the country's largest machinery of deportation: deporting refugees without hearings, retroactive bars, and mass status cancellation.
A mirror of anti-migrant ICE violence.
That's true, I don't, because I'm a cabinetmaker.
Wait didn't you block me earlier?
Am I unblocked now?!
I don't think most people involved were paid by Iran, and the CIA seems to agree.
Emphasizing the few people who were (maybe) is a rhetoric designed to illegitimize the whole movement.
And others too.
I am not a white man but it's really interesting how everyone thinking I was has influenced this conversation.
I wish we had as much influence as you think we do
I'm she/her just fyi.
I'm just responding to one thing you posted. I don't think it is respectful to dismiss movements this way.
This is, in fact, a tactic the right uses often to delegitimize protest and silence dissent.
Thanks for an engaging discussion I wish you all the best of luck.
I'm sorry for you, and for the rest of us
Strategically, the Democrats failed. That is just a fact.
What you are doing is not helping, it's making it worse.
Absolutely that's true- but it's disrespectful of all the resistance work people have been doing for generations to say or imply that the people involved were not legitimate actors exercising what power they had to make a better world.
I also care about those things. I was very excited about Kamala too until she started talking about wanting a lethal fighting force and campaigning with the Cheneys - not everything she did was good, though she would have been better than this.
The Dems owed us a stronger fight- they lost, you pay.
The post I was originally objecting to, oh so long ago now, was a government document that compared the campus protests to other recent movements including BLM.
It said that the tactics were similar and this was evidence that all these protests were illegitimate, the product of outside influence.
Ok well that's mean you don't even know me. I think if you met me in real life you might have a different opinion.
I haven't had these kind of conversations since the old Twitter, it's pretty bad here tbh.
I think I'll go now.
I can't personally vote in the American election.
But I do live in a country where strategically voting for the less bad guy has led to worse and worse outcomes from my perspective.
I do not vote strategically, I vote for the candidate I like the best, and I will always do that.
To be honest I don't know a single progressive or leftist who didn't hold their nose and vote for Kamala. But it is the responsibility of the Democrats to get votes, not the other way around.
If they run anti trans candidates, people should not vote for them, right? I mean, where does it stop?
That is absolutely not my experience of the Canadian manifestation of those protests.
If that is what you think, though, then isn't it pretty insulting to say that they were like that because of their similarity to the BLM movement and other recent organized resistance?
Can you see that?
Oh do you think I think I'm savvy?
No I actually prefer it when people are kind.
Yeah there's lots of comments in the op explaining the chilling effect of the arrests, expulsions, etc. On those protests, plus the entirely different context of the Trump regime.
People here are exhausted, I can only imagine how much worse it is down there.
I'm she/her btw
We had campus protests too and maybe they were different but they didn't do that here and they were very enmeshed with other organizing that happens all the time.
I meant I don't like this part of bluesky it's not the part I'm normally in- you are like, super rude btw
I'm not sure why I'm getting such hate for saying this without anyone actually seeming to disagree
Yeah I'm familiar with Jewish organizing and I have read books.
The point I was trying to make, though, is that protests use similar tactics because people talk to each other and learn from each other, not because they are paid for by foreign actors and manipulated by Iranians.
I DEFINITELY don't go wherever I am right now that's for sure
Well they say we are the ones who are ideological purists and won't cooperate but I just called you my friend and you are shitting all over me.
Can you imagine why I might not be super keen on voting for someone like that? Why I might get discouraged about the whole thing and just stay home?
It's funny how Centrists pretend they didn't fuck anyone over in the last election by not bothering to provide any decent arguments against fascism, by continually capitulating to fascists, and by downplaying the concerns of the left WHO WARNED YOU THIS WAS COMING but you didn't listen
Dude. Look in the mirror.
Millions of people voted for Trump- please try at least a little to hold them responsible.
Please try to fight the actual enemy.
Your friends on the left were the ones warning you about this years ago. We are the ones that have been fighting this the hardest I'm begging you to please listen.
